Microsoft Security Essentials, released back in September 2009 as a free replacement for the subscription-based Windows Live OneCare, has been updated to version 2.0 today. The final release carries the build number 2.0.657 and includes new features such as:
While last week’s Reddit question and answer session was skewed heavily toward a desire for Microsoft to stick to standards (and leave all the social networking out), today’s announcement of Hotmail Active Views brings us another improvement to Hotmail that …
Last week at Le Web conference, Microsoft demoed Microsoft Montage. 
Montage is a shareable, personal, visual album of the web. You are able to design your personal Montage around a topic by adding content that pulls information …
Good news for Windows Live users, and Windows Live plugin writers, a new page, apparently a replacement for Windows Live Gallery (gallery.live.com) has appeared, at http://plugins.live.com. The new page will serve as a host for plugins for Windows Live …
Australia’s biggest telco is considering migrating customers of its BigPond Internet service provider division from their own in house versions of email, photos and online storage to Windows Live, according to a post on Australian tech site Delimiter.
Delimiter …
We spotted a tweet today about a Hotmail “Ask Me Anything” session today hosted on Reddit.com, and while we weren’t able to attend, it looks like our friends from Hotmail got quite a bit of attention, and some direct …
Today IE announced its Tracking Protection technology in a blog post on the IE Team blog. Along with it came posts from MS Advertising and MS on the Issues, touting the privacy protections, opt-in model, and open specifications …
This morning the IE team announced a new set of functionality to the upcoming Release Candidate of IE9, Tracking Protection and Tracking Protection Lists. In short, Tracking Protection offers users (and very interesting that the IE team blog chose to …
The Office Web Apps (on Windows Live SkyDrive and Hotmail) became available in 15 new countries including China, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and Turkey.
These additions bring …
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